Publications
McCaffrey, J. B. (2023). Evolving Concepts of Functional Localization. Philosophy Compass, e12914.
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McCaffrey, J., & Wright, J. (2022). 14 Neuroscience and Cognitive Ontology: A Case for Pluralism. Neuroscience and philosophy.
| mccaffrey_wright_2022.pdf |
McCaffrey, J., & Danks, D. (2022). Mixtures and psychological inference with resting state fMRI. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
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McCaffrey, J. and Machery, E. (2016). "The Reification Objection to Bottom Up Cognitive Ontology Revision"," commentary on "Précis of After Phrenology: Neural Reuse and The Interactive Brain," by Michael Anderson, book précis article, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (39): 1-45.
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McCaffrey, J. (2015). "The Brain's Heterogeneous Functional Landscape," Philosophy of Science, 82(5): 1010-1022.
| mccaffrey_2015.pdf |
McCaffrey, J. (2015) "Reconceiving Conceptual Vehicles: Lessons from Semantic Dementia," Philosophical Psychology, 28(3): 337-354.
| mccaffrey2015.pdf |
McCaffrey, J. (2013) "Concepts in the Brain: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and Categorization," Protosociology, 30, 167-190.
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McCaffrey, J. and Machery, E. (2012). "Philosophical Issues about Concepts," Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 3(2), 265-279.
| mccaffrey_and_machery_2012.pdf |
McCaffrey, J. and Galen, C. (2011). "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Impact of Nest Selection Behavior on the Altitudinal Range of an Alpine Ant, Formica neorufibarbis," Environmental Entomology, 40 (3), 534-540.
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Presentations
Contributed
"Does the Brain Respect Basic Emotion Theory? Pattern Classification and Correspondence in fMRI Research" Philosophy of Science Association, (Atlanta, Georgia) November 2016
"Neuroimaging and Cognitive Ontologies: Does Discriminability Warrant Kind Splitting?" (poster) Rethinking the Taxonomy of Psychology Workshop, (London, Ontario) April 2016
"Is Memory a Form of Episodic Simulation?" (With Sarah Robins), Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, (Louisville, KY), March 2016
--(poster) Society for Philosophy and Psychology (Austin, TX) June 2016
"Pernicious Stipulations," (with Dave Colaço and Joshua Alexander), Society for Philosophy and Psychology, (Raleigh-Durham, NC) June 2015
“The Brain’s Heterogeneous Functional Landscape,” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, (New Orleans, LA) April 2015.
“Neural Multi-Functionality and Mechanistic Role Functions,” Philosophy of Science Association, (Chicago, IL) Nov. 2014.
“A Mechanistic Approach to Multi-Functional Brain Areas,” 30th Boulder Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science, (Boulder, CO) Oct. 2014.
“The Investigative Role of Prefrontal Lobotomy,” History of Science Society, (San Diego, CA) Nov. 2012.
“Reconceiving Conceptual Vehicles: Lessons from Semantic Dementia,” Society for Philosophy and Psychology, (Boulder, CO) June 2012.
“Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Rock-Nesting as Thermoregulation in the Ant Formica Neurofibarbis gelida wheeler” (POSTER) with Galen, C, Kelso, S, and McKinley, A), Ecological Society of America, (Milwaukee, WI) Aug. 2008.
Invited
“Cognitive Ontology Revision: Structure and Function,” Workshop on Free Will and Cognitive Ontologies, (Berlin) Feb. 2015.
“Varieties of Neural Multi-Functionality” (POSTER), Conference on Experimentation in Neuroscience, (Pittsburgh, PA) Dec. 2013.
"Does the Brain Respect Basic Emotion Theory? Pattern Classification and Correspondence in fMRI Research" Philosophy of Science Association, (Atlanta, Georgia) November 2016
"Neuroimaging and Cognitive Ontologies: Does Discriminability Warrant Kind Splitting?" (poster) Rethinking the Taxonomy of Psychology Workshop, (London, Ontario) April 2016
"Is Memory a Form of Episodic Simulation?" (With Sarah Robins), Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, (Louisville, KY), March 2016
--(poster) Society for Philosophy and Psychology (Austin, TX) June 2016
"Pernicious Stipulations," (with Dave Colaço and Joshua Alexander), Society for Philosophy and Psychology, (Raleigh-Durham, NC) June 2015
“The Brain’s Heterogeneous Functional Landscape,” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, (New Orleans, LA) April 2015.
“Neural Multi-Functionality and Mechanistic Role Functions,” Philosophy of Science Association, (Chicago, IL) Nov. 2014.
“A Mechanistic Approach to Multi-Functional Brain Areas,” 30th Boulder Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science, (Boulder, CO) Oct. 2014.
“The Investigative Role of Prefrontal Lobotomy,” History of Science Society, (San Diego, CA) Nov. 2012.
“Reconceiving Conceptual Vehicles: Lessons from Semantic Dementia,” Society for Philosophy and Psychology, (Boulder, CO) June 2012.
“Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Rock-Nesting as Thermoregulation in the Ant Formica Neurofibarbis gelida wheeler” (POSTER) with Galen, C, Kelso, S, and McKinley, A), Ecological Society of America, (Milwaukee, WI) Aug. 2008.
Invited
“Cognitive Ontology Revision: Structure and Function,” Workshop on Free Will and Cognitive Ontologies, (Berlin) Feb. 2015.
“Varieties of Neural Multi-Functionality” (POSTER), Conference on Experimentation in Neuroscience, (Pittsburgh, PA) Dec. 2013.